Virginia DiPietro, a longtime East Hampton resident who was known as Dolly, died of a heart attack on Saturday, Aug. 22, at home in Ocean Township, N.J. She was 96 years old and had been in hospice care for 10 months.
Mrs. DiPietro was a dedicated parishioner at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where she taught religious education for 30 years and was a eucharistic minister for more than 40 years. After she moved to New Jersey to live with her daughter in 2007, Mrs. DiPietro joined St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Long Branch.
She was born in Flushing, Queens, on Aug. 10, 1924, one of three children of Frank DiOrio and the former Antonette Scorzelli. She grew up in Corona. In November of 1946, she married Joseph DiPietro, with whom she had four children. The family summered at Hither Hills in the early 1960s and built a house in the Clearwater area in the late 1960s.
Mr. DiPietro died in 2000. Their children survive. They are Joseph John DiPietro of Darnestown, Md., Michael DiPietro of Seaford, Daryl DiPietro of East Hampton, and Susan DiPietro of Ocean. She also leaves five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Her brother, Larry DiOrio, and her sister, Mildred Lodovichetti, died before her.
Services were at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home last Tuesday, and a funeral Mass was said at Most Holy Trinity last Wednesday. Mrs. DiPietro is buried at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.
The family has suggested memorial donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, online at stjude.org.
